Beauty Basics: MAC Eye Brushes

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Focus On: MAC 275 Medium Angled Shading Brush

MAC 275 Medium Angled Shading Brush ($24.50) is medium-sized angled brush with lots of fluffiness. I like this brush for applying concealer around the nose and eyes, and actually do find it can be used to contour small areas like the nose, too. I don’t contour my nose often, if ever, because I guess I’m fairly satisfied with its appearance (it’s a nose — it’s like the foot of the face to me, it’s just there and eh!), but it works better than the 168, which is far too large for the nose area. This also works well to apply highlighter above the cupid’s bow of your lips – just one swipe and voila!

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Haha! I wish I thought like you. I mean, I know some people must find them cute (and even sexy!), they’re just totally not my thing. Even people who think they have cute feet… well, their feet still look like feet to me 😛

Wait most of the blending brushes and face brushes are made out of black goat hair, such as the 226 and 227. The 239 used to made from brown hair before the switched to white, so if you’re only basing your information off of that then you may be wrong.

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